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Andrew RuleAssociate editor

Andrew Rule has reported on life and crimes and catastrophes (and sometimes sport) for more than 45 years. He has worked for each of Melbourne’s daily newspapers and also spent time in radio and television production and making documentaries on subjects ranging from crime to horse racing. His podcast Life & Crimes is one of News Corp’s most listened-to products.

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Cold Cases
The first and last place to look for a body

The first and last place to look for a body

As a crook, Rocky Iaria made a good fruit picker. And had he been jailed over a brazen crime against a rich tomato grower, he’d probably be alive today. Instead, years after he vanished, Rocky’s body was found somewhere completely unexpected.  

Cold Cases
21/07/2008 NEWS: Seana Tapp - found murdered, after being sexually assulted in her home in Fern Tree Gully, in August, 1984.

Son offers new lead in mother-daughter Tapp murders

WHAT sort of man murders a nine-year-old girl and her mother? A man strong enough to subdue and strangle Ferntree Gully mother Margaret Tapp, a fit 35-year-old fighting to save her daughter from a murderous sexual predator. Now a son has come forward with a new shocking revelation — he thinks that man might be his father.

Crime in Focus
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The savage murder that shocked Victoria

THE violent murder of this young mother in front of her children was so disturbing that it shocked and sickened not only the experienced Supreme Court judge presiding over it, but the accused man’s defence counsel and everyone in court. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

OpinionAndrew Rule
Centrelink stock in Elizabeth, Thursday, September 21, 2017. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

Centrelink hiding behind privacy laws instead of helping

SOME people on the margins of society have substantial financial inheritances owed to them, but rather than helping efforts to track these people down and ultimately get them off the streets, Centrelink believes it is easier to hide behind privacy laws, writes Andrew Rule.

Cold Cases
19/7/2002: Copypic of fatal shoooting victim Jane Thurgood-Dove who was shot on 06 Nov 1997 at her Muriel St home in Niddrie,  Melbourne. /Police believe a ex-bikie Steven John Mordy killed the mother of 3 instead of a neighbour. (Mordy died in /2000) crime vic murder headshot

Was Jane Thurgood-Dove murdered by mistake?

JANE Thurgood-Dove was a suburban mother gunned down in her driveway in front of her three children. Her brutal murder remains unsolved, but police and others linked to the case believe she could have been killed in a fatal case of mistaken identity. LISTEN NOW.

Cold Cases
Police media press conference to appeal to the public for information on the 21st anniversary of the discovery of Fiona Burns and John Lee's bodies.

New clue in teen runaway slayings

SOMEBODY stabbed two teenagers to death and left their bodies at a Victorian rest stop. But does a new witness raise the awful possiblity there was a third victim of this horrific crime? ANDREW RULE PODCAST

NSW
Family picture of Cheryl Grimmer (right) pictured with her brother Paul, before she went missing in 1970 who disappeared from Fairy Meadow Beach, NSW.

Hope of cracking Cheryl Grimmer cold case

Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer vanished from a NSW beach in 1970. For five decades her loss has haunted her surviving family and taunted cold case detectives — until the arrest of a man last February.

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